Editorial

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product estimates (in real terms or at 2010 constant prices) for the full year 2018 limped by 1.93 per cent over 2017. The NBS estimates fell within a hair’s breadth of the […]

SAFETY concerns for National Youth Service Corps members deployed as ad hoc personnel during elections have become a recurring decimal. In the just-concluded presidential and National Assembly polls, 18 of them were abducted in three […]

For Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, the population time bomb has been ticking away ceaselessly; and the strain on the economy is also becoming unbearable. With poverty galloping at an unprecedented rate, population in Nigeria […]

Female genital mutilation (FGM), one of the most controversial and not-so-widely discussed harmful traditional practice, cannot be hidden anymore, thanks to the forces of citizen journalism. The debate about FGM like polygamy and witchcraft is […]

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari recently highlighted the deep flaws in the civil service but, typically, came short of opting for sweeping change. Instead, he basked in the middling reforms of his administration such as payroll cleansing. […]

A fresh insight into the Contributory Pension Scheme has reignited the debate on its operations. In a sobering update, the National Pension Commission – the regulator – has stated that less than 15 per cent […]

There is palpable apprehension in the air as Nigerians go to the polls on Saturday to elect their state governors and Houses of Assembly members in the final round of the 2019 general election. Primarily, […]

A motley crowd of policemen. There are about 20 of them at the gate, angry, with eyes crimson red. The whole place is rowdy. Who do these policemen? Me I no no, oh! The policemen […]

Although details of reported protest by the Federal Government over recent deportation of Nigerians from Ghana have been sketchy, response from the Foreign Affairs Ministry has been somewhat undiplomatic and insufferable. Most people have been […]

The call by the African Development Bank (AfDB) on development partners to scale up support for implementation of sanitation programmes to fast-track Africa’s progress and deliver on its promise to the continent is well-targeted. However, […]

While some forms of discrimination against women and girls are diminishing, gender inequality continues to hold women back and deprive them of their basic rights and opportunities. The International Women’s Day (IWD) marked the other […]

I want to appeal to President Buhari led Federal Government to save Nigerians from slave auctions in Mali. There is urgent need to rescue more than 20,000 Nigerian girl’s traffic to Mali. There is urgent […]

President Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in on May 29, this year, for another tenure of four years. After months of electioneering, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Buhari as the winner of the […]

This Saturday, March 9, the Governorship, State Houses of Assembly and the Federal Capital Territory Area Councils elections will be held, following the conclusion of the Presidential, Senatorial and House of Representatives’ elections that held […]

•That some of our undergraduates are gang-raping colleagues right on campus Universities are supposed to be citadels of learning where people are moulded, not only academically but also, morally. As a matter of fact, the […]

A disclosure the other day by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) boss about possible pursuit of 85,000 millionaire tax defaulters is curious and unfortunate. There is no reason for serious alarm before such a […]

Aviation business in the country recorded a novelty recently when a state-owned airline – Ibom Air – was inaugurated in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Two out of the three aircraft acquired for the fleet were […]

The just suspended industrial action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), which disrupted university education calendar for months, has again underscored a stark reality that the Federal Government alone cannot effectively fund tertiary […]

BETTER known as Agbako, (“Calamity”), Alhaji Abdulsalam Sanyaolu, aka, Charles Olumo, has enjoyed an acting career which encompasses the emergence and development of Nigeria’s burgeoning movie industry. Notorious for his bald head, sinister goatee, hoarse […]

It is all over but the reckoning. President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) beat his closest rival Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) by polling a commanding 15,191,847 votes to […]